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Friday, November 13, 2015

Preaching Contextualization

“If you overcontextualize and compromise the actual content of
the gospel, you will draw a crowd but no one will be changed. That is
nothing less than a dereliction of the preacher’s duty. You will
mainly just be confirming people in their present course of life. On
the other hand, if you undercontextualize, so that your communication
of the gospel is unnecessarily culturally alien and distant from the
listeners, you will find that no one will be willing to hear you
out.” Timothy Keller,
"Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism",
p. 102-103